Legally mandated nurse-to-patient ratios are one of the most controversial topics in health care today. Ratio advocates believe that minimum staffing levels are essential for quality care, better working conditions, and higher rates of RN recruitment and retention that would alleviate the current global nursing shortage. Opponents claim that ratios will unfairly burden hospital budgets, while reducing management flexibility in addressing patient needs.
Safety in Numbers is the first book to examine the arguments for and against ratios. Utilizing survey data, interviews, and other original research, Suzanne Gordon, John Buchanan, and Tanya Bretherton weigh the cost, benefits, and effectiveness of ratios in California and the state of Victoria in Australia, the two places where RN staffing levels have been mandated the longest. They show how hospital cost cutting and layoffs in the 1990s created larger workloads and deteriorating conditions for both nurses and their patients—leading nursing organizations to embrace staffing level regulation. The authors provide an in-depth account of the difficult but ultimately successful campaigns waged by nurses and their allies to win mandated ratios. Safety in Numbers then reports on how nurses, hospital administrators, and health care policymakers handled ratio implementation.
With at least fourteen states in the United States and several other countries now considering staffing level regulation, this balanced assessment of the impact of ratios on patient outcomes and RN job performance and satisfaction could not be timelier. The authors' history and analysis of the nurse-to-patient ratios debate will be welcomed as an invaluable guide for patient advocates, nurses, health care managers, public officials, and anyone else concerned about the quality of patient care in the United States and the world.
Автор: Arthur Jay Название: Lean Six Sigma for Hospitals: Improving Patient Safety, Pati ISBN: 1259641082 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781259641084 Издательство: McGraw-Hill Рейтинг: Цена: 9436.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A fully updated, practical guide to Lean Six Sigma applications in the healthcare industry
Автор: Quick Название: Regulating Patient Safety ISBN: 0521190991 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521190992 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 10138.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This illuminating study provides a detailed discussion of the role of law and regulation in patient safety and argues that medical professionalism must evolve to embrace a patient-centred perspective. It will appeal to researchers of medical law and ethics, and those working on public health and social policies.
Автор: Govindarajan Название: Improving Patient Safety, Tools & S ISBN: 1498785026 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498785020 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7654.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Based on the IOM's estimate of 44,000 deaths annually, medical errors rank as the eighth leading cause of death in the U.S. Clearly medical errors are an epidemic that needs to be contained. Despite these numbers, patient safety and medical errors remain an issue for physicians and other clinicians. This book bridges the issues related to patient safety by providing clinically relevant, vignette-based description of the areas where most problems occur. Each vignette highlights a particular issue such as communication, human facturs, E.H.R., etc. and provides tools and strategies for improving quality in these areas and creating a safer environment for patients.
Автор: Woodward Название: Rethinking Patient Safety ISBN: 1498778542 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498778541 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 8267.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The vast majority of healthcare is provided safely and effectively. However, just like any high-risk industry, things can and do go wrong. There is a world of advice about how to keep people safe but this delivers little in terms of changed practice.
Written by a leading expert in the field with over two decades of experience, Rethinking Patient Safety provides readers with a critical reflection upon what it might take to narrow the implementation gap between the evidence base about patient safety and actual practice. This book provides important examples for the many professionals who work in patient safety but are struggling to narrow the gap and make a difference in their current situation.
It provides insights on practical actions that can be immediately implemented to improve the safety of patient care in healthcare and provides readers with a different way of thinking in terms of changing behavior and practices as well as processes and systems.
Suzette Woodward shares lessons from the science of implementation, campaigning and social movement methods and offers the reader the story of a discovery. Her team has explored an approach which could profoundly affect the safety culture in healthcare; a methodology to help people talk to each other and their patients and to listen through facilitated safety conversations. This is their story.
Автор: Oliver Quick Название: Regulating Patient Safety: The End of Professional Dominance? ISBN: 1108464882 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108464888 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This illuminating study provides a detailed discussion of the role of law and regulation in patient safety and argues that medical professionalism must evolve to embrace a patient-centred perspective. It will appeal to researchers of medical law and ethics, and those working on public health and social policies.
Автор: Heather Gluyas Название: Patient Safety ISBN: 0230354963 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230354968 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 4750.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: How can we make health care processes safer and more consistent? How do we improve care outcomes for patients? With a range of coaching tips, activities, scenarios and reflective exercises, this book enables you to translate current research on patient safety in to everyday good practice, by increasing understanding of the key concepts and helping you to develop strategies to minimise the risk of patient harm. It focusses on Human Factors to support understanding of the relationship between human behaviour and fallibility, and the design of systems and processes, environments, tools, tasks and technology to improve patient safety. It also reflects the WHO Patient Safety Curriculum. Patient Safety is an essential text for all healthcare professionals.
Автор: Kvint Название: Strategy for the Global Market ISBN: 1138892122 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138892125 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 11023.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book uses a strategic management lens to shed light on emerging markets. With a balance of theory and practical insight, the book describes the economic conditions that create emerging markets, a key to understanding how to develop and implement strategies that take advantage of the opportunities in these markets.
Автор: Margaret Scott Melanie Fisher & Название: Patient Safety and Managing Risk in Nursing ISBN: 1446266885 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781446266885 Издательство: Sage Publications Рейтинг: Цена: 5067.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book aims to provide nursing students and new nurses with a greater understanding of how to manage patient safety and risk in their own practice. The book focuses on the essentials that students and nurses need to know, and therefore provides a clear pathway through what can sometimes seem an overwhelmingly complex mass of rules, procedures and possible options.
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